Movable weather-strip.



JOHN HEMMERLING & JULIUS 'HEMMERLING.

MOVABLE WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1909.

Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

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JOHN HEMMERLING AND JULIUS HEMMERLING, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

MOVABLE \VEATHER-STRIP.

Application filed June 22, 1909.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OIIN HnMMnRLiNo and JULIUs HEMMERLING, citizensof the United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in MovableYVeather-Strips; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will onableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to weather-strips, and particularly to movableweather-strips to be attached to doors to close off the opening betweenthe same atthe bottom and the floor.

lYe aim to provide an inexpensive, durable and efficient weather-stripof this kind which may be sold and applied to a door as a completelyassembled article and when at tached will effectively close out theweather.

To this end our invention consists in a supporting strip preferablyrabbeted lengthwise at the back to form a housing, a weather-striparranged within the rabbeted portion of the housing of the supportingstrip and means for attaching the weatherstrip to the supporting stripso as to project normally at one end and be capable of movement, afterthe manner of a parallel rule, downwardly into contact with the floorwhen, upon closing the door, its projecting end impinges against thedoor jamb.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing, is a front elevation of a doorwith the improved device attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a view on a largerscale showing the door and its frame in horizontal section and the in1-proved device in plan; Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the device detachedfrom the door and showing the weather-strip partly depressed; Fig. a isa vertical sectional view of what is shown in Fig. 3, a certain disk andother parts appearing in side elevation and the device being attached tothe door and in its elevated position; Fig. 5 is a view similar to.Fig.4 except that the weather-strip is depressed and a certain springomitted; and, Fig. 6 illustrates a detail.

a is the door frame and b the door hinged therein in the usual manner.

0 is the supporting strip, the same having its front face formed toresemble a piece of Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 503,599.

molding, so that when it is attached to the door 6 it will impart afinish thereto. The back of the strip 0 is formed with a longitudinalrabbet (Z extending from a line suitably near its top edge to its bottomedge, thereby producing a space forming a housing when the overhang c isin contact with the door, as hereinafter explained. The back of thestrip 0 has near each end a circular recess 7 and concentric with eachrecess a hole g is bored through the strip. In this hole is journaledthe trunnion h of a disk 4, the disk being held in place, if desired, bya screw having a head or enlargement /c. A flat helical spring Z, havingone end introduced into a hole m in the overhang e and its other endinserted into one of several holes 72 in the disk, is coiled within therecess 7' and acts normally to thrust the disk rotatively in thedirection opposite to that indi- Patented Dec. 21, 1909. l

cated by the arrow in Fig. (5. On the back of each disk is a stud 0, thetwo studs extending into holes p in the weather-strip The weather-stripmay be retained on the studs by screws 7 having the enlargements s. TheWeatherstrip has an elastic cushion or strip 6 which projects below itslower edge for the entire length thereof and beyond its right-hand endin Fig.

The relation of the weather-strip to the strip 0 is normally such thatthe former projects atits right-hand end in Fig. 3 beyond thecorresponding end of the strip 0. The strip 0, with the other partsattached thereto, as above described, is secured to the bottom of thedoor I) by means of the screws u which penetrate holes '0 in theoverhang c of the strip 0. It is attached in such manner that when thedoor is in the closed position, the strip will be displaced by the sideof the door frame to which the door is hinged laterally and downwardly(the disks turning in the direction of the arrows in Figs. 3 and (3,against the tension of the springs) so as to bring the elastic strip iinto regular contact with the floor from one end to the other thereof;when the door is opened the springs Z will turn the disks 2' in thereverse direction and so raise the strip out of contact with the floor.

In view of the foregoing it will be seen that the improved device may besold and applied to the door as an assembled article of manufacture; thedevices may be made up in suitable lengths so that all that thepurchaser has to do in any case is to saw off the left-hand end of thearticle in Fig. 3 (having first depressed the Weather-strip) in order tofit it to the door.

Since the Weather-strip lies flat against the vertical face of therabbet in the supporting strip and the disks and springs stand closebetween the weather strip and the bottoms or plane faces of therecesses, the parts being held in this position by the screws a and 1",undue lost motion of any kind is avoided and the device rendered compactand capable of being assembled readily; the only moving part which isexposed is the Weather-strip, so that the device may be ap plied to adoor Without its being an unsightly or conspicuous accessory thereof.

Having thus fully described our invention, What We claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As an article of manufacture, the combination of a supporting striphaving circular recesses in one face thereof, and an overhang projectingfrom said face immediately above said recesses, a Weather-strip having aflat face lying squarely against the recessed face of said supportingstrip under the overhang of the latter, disks fitting said recesses andeach having one face thereof squarely contacting with the flat face ofthe Weatherstrip and also having a stud projecting into theWeather-strip and forming a pivot therefor and another stud projectingfrom its opposite face into the supporting strip and serving as abearing for the disk, a flat helical spring disposed flatwise in eachre- 2 cess and fitting between the disk and the supporting strip, oneend of each spring being secured in the corresponding disk and the otherend in the overhang, and headed devices introduced into the free ends ofthe studs and holding them in the weather-strip and supporting strip,substantially as described.

In testimony, that We claim the foregoing, We have hereunto set ourhands this 19th day of June, 1909.

JOHN HEMMERLING. JULIUS HEMMERLING.

Vitnesses JOHN STEWARD, BARTON H. WALKER.

